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Those, who later wanted to paint similar things, as imitators of those ancient painters who still possessed knowledge of the reality of the astral world through tradition, appear to us like barbarians compared to those who really still had a relationship to the higher world. For example, Giotto[^2] did no longer portray what he felt to be true, but everything is painted based solely upon external tradition. At his time, it was natural to move towards that which could only be seen on the physical plane, to materialistic art. Only the greatest painters of that time still held on to tradition.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Die, welche später Ähnliches malen wollten, als Nachahmer dieser älteren Maler, die noch durch Tradition Kenntnis von der Wirklichkeit der astralen Welt besaßen, die erscheinen uns wie Barbaren gegenüber denen, die wirklich noch ein Verhältnis zu den höheren Welten hatten. So ist zum Beispiel bei Giotto nicht mehr die Darstellung dessen, was er als Wahrheit empfand, sondern alles nur aus äußerer Tradition gemalt. Zu seiner Zeit war es natürlich, daß man überging zu dem, was nur auf dem physischen Plan gesehen werden kann, zu der materialistischen Kunst. Nur noch die größten Maler dieser Zeit hielten an der Tradition fest. Auf der «Disputa» des Raffael kann man sehen, wie in den Grundtönen von unten nach oben in der Tat mit gewisser Richtigkeit wiedergegeben ist jenes Erlebnis, das der Mensch hat, wenn er in die höheren Welten sich erhebt. 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